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This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire<\/a><\/p>\n

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By Frank Miele
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If for no other reason than that it will elicit fear in the hearts of autocracy-phobics, I propose that Donald Trump\u2019s second-term Cabinet be known as \u201cThe Wild Bunch.\u201d<\/p>\n

The name is best known as the title of Sam Peckinpah\u2019s classic 1969 western featuring a colorful cast of aging outlaws \u2013 William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Edmond O\u2019Brien, Warren Oates, and Ben Johnson \u2013 who give it their all as they battle bounty hunters, the Mexican Federal Army, and the passage of time in order to make their mark while they still have a chance.<\/p>\n

Substitute the legacy media and special interests for the bounty hunters and Mexican army, and that about sums up the desperate last-chance mission of the ragtag band Trump has put together to carry out his mandate of meaningful change in a government grown fat and corrupt for the past half-century.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t need to belabor the point. Trump\u2019s appointees aren\u2019t outlaws, but they certainly have the federales<\/em> worried \u2013 the so-called administrative state, the people who have been wearing badges and making the rules. Because this Wild Bunch looks like they mean business. If they get approved, they will be kicking ass and taking names.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a far cry from Trump\u2019s first Cabinet, which he appointed with the permission<\/em> of the administrative state. The outsider president didn\u2019t know enough yet \u2013 or have enough power \u2013 to buck the system. He went with consensus choices who, at best, might talk about change but would be hesitant to effect it. Half of them shot Trump in the back; most of the rest were disloyal to his face, along with the congressional power brokers who put up roadblocks to every meaningful reform.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not hard to think of Trump as Pike Bishop, the William Holden character in \u201cThe Wild Bunch\u201d who leads what\u2019s left of his gang out of a disastrous gunfight at the beginning of the movie and then plans his next move. At one point, Pike tells his trusted lieutenant, \u201cThis is our last go-around, Dutch. This time, we do it right.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where Trump is now, at age 78, sensing the insufficiency of his first term and wanting to make a real difference the second time around. This time, we do it right.<\/em><\/p>\n

The \u00a0president-elect has wasted no time in assembling his team of rabble-rousers. You can break the mayhem down into four discrete buckets \u2013 justice, health, national security, and economic overhaul \u2013 and it looks like, if he gets his way, Trump\u2019s second term could be historic. Throw in the government reinvention project spearheaded by rogue entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and you are well on your way to the second American revolution. No wonder the political establishment will stop at nothing to crush Trump and his appointees before they can begin the reforms they promised.<\/p>\n

The old guard may have celebrated when they took down the proposed appointment of Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general, but they won nothing. Trump\u2019s replacement nominee, former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, will work just as hard as Gaetz to shake up the Department of Justice. As one of Trump\u2019s attorneys in his first impeachment trial, she has intimate knowledge of how the Deep State can aim the full force of the federal bureaucracy on an individual to destroy him or her.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no accident that the Trump transition team has declined FBI background checks on his nominees and appointees. Remember, this is the same FBI that entrapped Trump\u2019s national security adviser Michael Flynn in the early days of his first administration. Not to mention the FBI that let President Trump be impeached for questioning Joe Biden\u2019s role in Ukrainian corruption, even though the agency was in possession of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop that would have vindicated Trump if it had been released.<\/p>\n

You can bet that Bondi, assisted by Trump\u2019s criminal lawyer Todd Blanche in the role of deputy attorney general, will remove any Justice Department employees who pursue charges against anyone for political purposes. Those days are over.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s just the beginning, and although the Justice Department overhaul may bring the most significant changes immediately, the appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services could result in long-term changes of even greater impact.<\/p>\n

Anyone who has noticed the prevalence of advertising for wonder drugs on cable news probably can understand the concern that Big Pharma has an outsized impact on the health narrative being told in mainstream media. Multiply that concern by a dozen when you measure the influence that drug companies have not just on Congress and health regulatory agencies but on the medical industry itself.<\/p>\n

Bobby Kennedy has no fear of Big Pharma or the scientific establishment and he is willing to demand accountability for the kinds of policy decisions that led to our disastrous COVID policies four years ago. Is he right about everything? No, but he asks the right questions \u2013 questions that until now no one in power has dared to raise.<\/p>\n

What about national security? There are problems everywhere, none bigger than China, which has been the missing link in U.S. foreign policy for the past four years. Does President Biden even have a China policy? You would be hard-pressed to find it, unless it is appeasement. No response to the flow of fentanyl into the U.S. No response to the cold war with the Philippines or the creation of Chinese naval bases in the South China Sea. No response to the increasing pressure tactics employed against our crucial trading partner, Taiwan. No response to China cracking down on human rights and free speech in Hong Kong. No response to China\u2019s creation of a spy base in Cuba in violation of the Monroe Doctrine. No response to China\u2019s predatory trade practices using slave labor.<\/p>\n

You can expect the silence from the State Department to end when Sen. Marco Rubio is approved by the Senate as the new secretary of state. China is on notice, but other hot spots around the globe will also be addressed by Trump\u2019s national security team, which includes former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence and Rep. Michael Waltz as national security adviser. Trump promised to negotiate a settlement to the frightful war in Ukraine, and by appointing Gen. Keith Kellogg as special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, Trump is signaling that the killing has to end.<\/p>\n

National security and the economy overlap in at least two crucial areas \u2013 illegal immigration and Trump\u2019s plan to use tariffs as a tool to tame our allies and confound our adversaries. Treasury Secretary-designate Scott Bessent has made it clear that he will work with Trump to use tariffs to reshape the global economy and lessen the national debt.<\/p>\n

That will be a key ingredient as Trump\u2019s national security team works to deport the millions of illegals who have developed a dangerous symbiosis with the labor economy. Trump knows we can\u2019t merely overlook the lawbreakers without surrendering our moral superiority, but the trick will be to find economic resources to make whole the industries like agriculture that will need to reinvent themselves with a legal work force.<\/p>\n

In the first Trump administration, the response to Trump\u2019s plans for massive change was \u201cWhy?\u201d But now the response is \u201cWhy not?\u201d As Trump asked black voters in 2016, \u201cWhat do you have to lose?\u201d Now that question is being posed to the entire nation, which has been sleepwalking toward the abyss for too long. If we don\u2019t solve illegal immigration, the national debt, and the corporate stranglehold on our regulatory agencies and Defense Department, then there won\u2019t be anything left to lose. That\u2019s why nearly 60% of Americans support Trump\u2019s transition<\/a>, despite the fear-mongering of Rachel Maddow, the New York Times, and Biden\u2019s White House.<\/p>\n

In one last parallel between the cinematic \u201cWild Bunch\u201d and Trump\u2019s political variation, it is worth noting that Trump and his team know exactly what they are getting into. The Deep State isn\u2019t going to take kindly to the president turning off the spigot of easy money for lobbyists, Big Pharma, and the military-industrial complex. But don\u2019t expect Trump to back down.<\/p>\n

In a crucial scene in the film, as the outlaws plot their revenge, Ernest Borgnine warns William Holden that \u201cThey\u2019ll be waitin\u2019 for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holden responds: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have it any other way.\u201d Neither would Trump or any of the 77 million deplorables who joined his gang on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n

This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.<\/strong><\/div>\n

Frank Miele, the retired editor of the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell, Mont., is a columnist for RealClearPolitics. His book \u201cThe Media Matrix: What If Everything You Know Is Fake\u201d<\/a> is available\u00a0from his\u00a0Amazon author page. Visit him at HeartlandDiaryUSA.com<\/a> or follow him on Facebook @HeartlandDiaryUSA and on X\/Gettr @HeartlandDiary.<\/em><\/p>\n

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